NuclearNoises

Apparently, Bib is the next big election and it’s not looking good for him. Short version, remember how there was a lesser version of the 9/11 conspiracy theory that W didn’t do it but knew it was going to happen and let it happen anyway for politics? Yes, except this time it’s actually true.

As in Netanyahu allegedly provably knew that October 7 was going to happen at least 10 days before and decided to let it happen anyway because he thought it would make him look good politically. Maybe not how bad it would be, but he knew he was coming. Allegedly.

Sometimes I think of an old KitH sketch where a politician suffers a career-ending scandal when he judges a jams-and-jellies contest at a constituent County fair and he unintentionally picked for the winner a jam made by a child molester. I know it was a joke, but can we go back to that?

Trying to argue that someone is wrong by actively proving that they are right and just saying it with stank on it is a bold strategy choice. Guess we’ll see if it pays off.

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Darkly amusing, in Arkansas they’re considering more work requirements for welfare. This time it’s the GOP base that is mad. Because the ads aren’t racist enough. The most prominent of them shows of white guy gamer named Brad and they’re flat out saying they’re mad because it’s not a black woman.

Listening to Tom Morillo‘s “Date Night”. It’s a song about a pair of Dutch teenage sisters in World War II that would seduce Nazis into going out into the woods with them, and then murder them. Based. But I’m a little surprised gay guys aren’t doing something similar to Maga Republicans. /1

Again, maybe they are and we just haven’t heard about it yet. That does seem like the kind of thing that works best in secret at least for now.

Gentle Reminder that in terms of the number of attempted fake votes, the number one perpetrator of voter fraud in the US is Donald Trump. We knew for a fact he called a bunch of states up and tried to pressure their election officials into fabricating fake votes for him in 2020. /1

Exactly how many fraudulent votes he attempted to get cast is not known to the public, but we know that it’s at least five digits in probably breaks six.

16 Sept

So apparently contaminations have gotten so bad that six hand soap brands have recalls for possible contamination with antibiotic resistant bacteria. Welcome to Trump‘s USA, were the only vegetable that is not recalled is Mitch McConnell.

16 Sept

Apparently, I have an extremely hot take that having good intentions is not enough. You have to consider things like Praxis and optics and tactics when you advocate for something, anything. If you have good intentions but bad tactics, you could do more harm than good to your cause. /1

16 Sept

It doesn’t matter what you’re advocating for, if all people see for your cause are obviously a bunch of assholes than people will associate it with being an asshole. Be it Jesus, veganism, or even basic empathy. If people just see stupid assholes, they’re gonna assume everyone’s a stupid asshole.

14 Sept

"Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams". It's like Minority Report, but Dumber. The DHS has admitted that it takes your cellphone data (which it should not have access too without a warrant), your purchase history (same), and your social media activity and feeds it all into a couple AI models./1

14 Sept

Then they ask the AIs what the chances are that you recently committed a crime or are in the process of committing a crime. If any of the AIs answer in the positive for any of those questions they make up a pretext to pull you over like claiming you have an obscured license plate to search you. /2

14 Sept

If this was something Alex Jones made up a few years ago I'd make fun of him for it, but the DHS have admitted that they do this. With AIs that can't even correctly tell you how many R's are in the word Strawberry. See? Like Minority Report, but Even Dumber.

11 Sept

I legit wonder if Trump just assumed every billionaire and politician in the world rapes kids as much as he did, or at least wants to. Then they actually looked in the Epstein files and realized, No. Even by the standards of pedophile billionaires he’s a massive pedophile.

11 Sept

Hell, I’ll go even further. I legit wonder if Trump assumes that every man in the world wants to rape women and children as much as he does and it’s just a question of money and connections. Like he knew the files getting out with damage him, but he assumed it would damage everyone else too. /2

A new report shows that since Trump 2 started the rate which women die of ectopic pregnancies has roughly doubled. Breaking down by state though and we see it’s more like in blue states there’s been a modest bump while in red states it’s more than tripled. Unfortunately, Shocking Nobody.

Imagine being such a good person that you have 11 Grammys to your credit and 55 top 10 hits to your name, but those things are barely a footnote in your eulogy. First and foremost, is your kindness and generosity. You literally weren’t a billionaire because you gave all your money away too fast. /1

Now imagine being such an asshole that the only true villain character in the history of Sesame Street is just you in puppet form. They have a vampire that’s just presented as an eccentric that likes to count things and sleep during the day. Even the undead aren’t villains on Sesame Street. /3

Now imagine living in a time where you know exactly who I’m talking about in both cases, without me saying any names.

1 Sept

I’m betting a lot of you I’ve seen the video of a recruiter just shocked that someone who’s already gone through five rounds of interviews withdrew their application. With the possible exception of a literal head of state, there isn’t a job on the planet that requires more than three interviews./

1 Sept

A prescreen to make sure you’re real, a vibe check to see if you’ll fit in with the company, and a more precise technical skills check if needed. That’s three, tops. And for most jobs, you can do all three of those things in the same interview. Also, list the damn salary. /2

1 Sept

We need to agree as a society that if a company doesn’t list the salary and requires more than two interviews, none of us are going to take the job.

30 Aug

Remember Kids, it’s only in an ad hominem attack if you’re using the personal insult in place a logical argument or to dismiss someone else’s argument. If you’re just sprinkling in insults for fun and they aren’t loadbearing that it’s considered kind of rude but logically it’s just fine.

28 Aug

Point that comes up when you talk with MAGAts that will bug me forever. If you emotionally don’t like somebody, that doesn’t automatically make them a liar. If you emotionally don’t like something they said, that doesn’t automatically make it a lie. Claiming they do makes *YOU* a Liar.

21 Aug

Well, today’s ragebait headline says that Mamdani is suing the New York City council to block giving a $10,000 bonus to every teacher in NYC. The part that’s getting left out is that the way he did it is such that the teachers will get the money no matter how it plays out. /1

21 Aug

The lawsuit is because the way the city council did it was intentionally formulated to weaken the teacher’s union at the same time. Mamdani wants the teachers to have the money *and* a strong union.

21 Aug

[Though admittedly with the lawsuit they may get it later then ideal.]

5 Aug

Looks like El-Sayed did win, but only by about 1%. Stevens had official DNC assistance and an order of magnitude more money spent and she still managed to lose. If everyone is smart, they recognize the lesson is that the people want the Dems to move to the left, if maybe not full DSA left. /1

5 Aug

But this is the DNC we’re talking about. They’ll find a way to fuck this really obvious thing up.

4 Aug

So apparently old-time Dem strategist James Carville and Senator John Fetterman have both promised that if political streamer Hasan Piker keeps helping progressive and DSA members win elections they’re gonna quit the Democratic Party.

4 Aug

To be fair, I will acknowledge that losing Fetterman maybe would hurt a little bit in the short run, but in the long run we would all be better off.

So let me see if I got this right. There is a petition asking that Mayor Mamdani be blocked from attending a 9/11 Memorial event and it does have about 65,000 signatures - but the vast majority of those are just Internet weirdos that don’t even live in New York. /1

Only about 300 people on the petition are actually people that lost a family member in the 9/11 attacks. Mamdani has responded by saying he’s gonna go as he thinks most of the people that saying that are just freaking out that he happens to be a Muslim in his personal life. Not his words./2

He has confirmed that while he is going to go he has no intentions of making a speech. Which is a tradition at the memorial site, nobody that works politics makes a speech. Do I have that about right?

Recently released article reported that upper level GOP have finally figured out something that has been obvious to the rest of us from the beginning. Namely me that when you hire based on blind ideological loyalty above all else, including basic job competence, you produce a staff with problems./1

Namely, that it tends to produce a staff that are terminally online morons at best, actual Nazis at worst, and frequently just people try to use their job jobs to launch their own off-line grifter careers that have no actual interest in running for office.

29 July

Yeah, I’ve caught some drama there too. I call it “the Lesson of PETA”. Having good intentions is great, but the end of the day it’s not enough. You have to consider things like optics and operational tactics. Otherwise, you may end up doing more harm than good to your cause.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social

One thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.

25 July

“You have to respect other people‘s opinions”. No, you don’t. You should respect other people‘s ability to *form* their own opinions, but if their current opinions are provably stupid and getting people hurt it arguably becomes the duty of all rational people to disrespect those opinions.

So, the speech last night. Correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it he made a bunch of claims about election interference and claims he released a bunch of documents to back up his claims. However, if you actually go into the documents released you see that most of his claims were refuted. /1

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The papers that it's the CIA's opinion that the software in question just isn't capable of that. It might work on their own election machines, but not anywhere outside their borders. Quarter million noncitizens in the voting rolls? Nope. Maybe a tenth of that, and most of them are dead. /4

Finally, the papers show that Russia really has been interfering in our elections in Trump's favor and definitely did so with Trump's knowledge and consent in 2016, if mostly in the form of free propaganda from fake social media accounts. I miss anything? Or am I wrong about something?

For example, he claimed that China interfered with the 2020 election against him and stole a bunch of voter info. The papers show they did get a bunch of voter data but just the stuff that could be bought online anyway, and they show that China thought about it but decided against. /2

There were some Chinese hackers that did some things but none that were connected to the government and they targeted both campaigns. Biden's got a little more attention actually as they didn't think Trump would win. He claims Venezuala had software that hacks voting machines and can flip votes. /3

An Update - Apparently the McConnell office just released a written statement for “proof of life”. Supposedly he had a fall where he did lose consciousness and while getting treated for that they found pneumonia but otherwise he’s fine. The statement included a picture from April. /1

Not saying it’s impossible that he’s actually still alive but -

Yeah, take a closer look at that newspaper. This is AI bullshit.

I’m not gonna be mad at the Dems who’s instinct is to say something kind about Lindsey Graham right now, that is your instinct when someone you actually know dies, went around their friends and family. I would just not saying anything work related because he was a fascist POS who sold his soul. /1